Record ID: NLM-6C8397
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sword fragment. Cast fragment of a long narrow leaf-shaped blade, from towards its tip. A flattened rhomboid section at the narrower end of the fragment is rendered lentoid at the wider end by the rubbing down in antiquity of the aris between the sides of the blade on both its sides. The cutting edges remain sharp. Suggested date: Late Bronze Age, 1000-800 BC.
Length: 30.6mm, Width: 18.3mm, Thickness: 3.7mm, Weight: 6.61gms
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-6C0242
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible scabbard chape fragment. A cast sub-triangular plate with the relict of one of a probable pair of spurs at its wider end, which is bevelled, and possibly broken along its other edges. Plain borders, slightly raised, appear along one side and across the wider end of the object, and these enclose a curvilinear element of moulded decoration. From its form, this might alternatively be part of a stirrup mount; a reddish tint is often characteristic of Anglo-Scandinavian metalwork. Extremely abraded, as are many finds reported from the vicinity. Suggested date: Early Me…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby with Fordington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6BC9FE
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Cast discoid plano-convex button with the stub of a separate inserted copper alloy drawn wire loop in the back. The front bears an incised triangular motif embellished with groups of short incised lines. The flat back either retains white metal plating or evidences a high tin content, the front has a more yellow cast with its cuprous corrosion revealed by chips at the edge. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700.
Diameter: 14.5mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 4.9mm, Weight: 4.05gms
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby with Fordington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6BBADE
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight. Cast rectangular billet, made in an open mould probably formed in coarse sand, which has imprinted the sides of the object. Lightly patinated. This might be a very small ingot, but the mass is so close to one averdepois ounce as to prompt consideration of it as a deliberately made weight. The sand imprints suggest this was made using a sand bed, which was a requirement of more extensive or professionally conducted casting projects. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700.
Height: 16.8mm, Width: 20.3mm, Thickness: 12.9mm, Weight: 28.07gms
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby with Fordington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-575C9D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible strap fitting. A small round section stud with its end burred by impact, possibly when securing the object from which this projected to a leather strap. The current appearance may suggest this fragment was carried away from a larger parent object while remaining attached to a stout strap, which has now completely decayed. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900.
Length: 9.6mm, Diameter: 10mm, Weight: 2.37gms
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: NLM-575077
Object type: LOCKET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and glass locket fragment. An oval plano-convex orange glass stone with the relicts of a deeply incised and detailed bust in the style of a Classical intaglio, retained within an oval frame. Only the luxuriant wavy hair and bare shoulder of the subject now remain, the face having been carried away when the stone was broken. The frame is of two parts: a rounded concavo-convex sheath for the stone with external radial ribbed decoration; and a separate framing outer order with three grooves which follow its course. The inner edge of this component matched a counterpart on the…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Cawthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-574242
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead shot. Cast ball with a flattened circumferential belt from set up, a distorting effect occurring at the instant of firing an unwadded projectile. The mass suggests this was used with a light fowling piece or 'rook and rabbit' gun. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800.
Diameter: 11mm, Weight: 8.88gms
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-572A11
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead shot. Cast ball with a circumferential rib, possibly interrupted at one site, though this might be damage incurred in manufacture when the ball was cut from its sprue. The rib shows this was intended for a rifle related to the Brunswick Rifle of the 1840's, though this object is for hunting rather than a military weapon, probably a light fowling piece or 'rook and rabbit' gun. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1840-1860.
Diameter: 15mm, Weight: 10.69gms
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5720AB
Object type: TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dog tag. A disc with three lines of stamped lettering and a square hole measuring 2mm by 2mm and probably made with the point of a nail. The legend reads: RICHARD / BROWN / BINGHAM. Bingham, in Nottinghamshire, is a small town near the River Trent. The lettering style may suggest an 18th to 19th-century date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850.
Diameter: 27.3mm, Thickness: 1.1mm, Weight: 4.72gms
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-570C56
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead shot. Cast cylindrical slug, distorted by impact against a flat hard surface; patinated. The mass, at just over half an ounce, and the diameter, would be consistent with use as a supplementary load for a smoothbore muzzle loading pistol. This would be used to increase the 'stopping power' of a round. The use of eccentric forms of projectile was particularly characteristic of the 17th century. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700.
Length: 14.2mm, Diameter: 12.6mm, Weight: 14.85gms
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-56E74E
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron shot. Solid cast ball, with mould line. The mass exceeds the capacity of weighing equipment at the disposal of this reporter, though it does not feel inconsistent with a weight of c.5lbs or 2.3kg. The diameter is probably consistent with the 3½ inch bore of the light field gun known as a Saker or Drake - names drawn from those of hawks and reptiles, and applied to such weaponry in the 17th century. This was among the larger guns which might be deployed in open fighting, and at the smaller end of those used in the defence of fortified places, and on ships. Dr Kevin Leahy has comme…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-56C8D2
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast cylindrical whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter c.11mm and bearing traces of moulded decoration on one flat side. The decoration comprises moulded radial ribs between inner and outer edges, the latter raised. Patinated, and with a deep and probably recent cut which distorts the object. The moulded decoration may point to an association with the early post-medieval class of biconvex whorls. Its soft modelling in this case probably arises from the use of a more crisply decorated whorl to make the mould from which this copy was cast. Suggested date: …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scawby', grid reference and parish protected.